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Physical stressors e.g. Noise Length of working day Psychosocial stressors e.g. Relationships with co-workers Role responsibility These categories of stressors have the potential within them to cause stress and therefore our physical and mental health Whether they do affect our health depends on our ability to cope and the social support we receive…read more

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Marmot et al. (1997) studied the job-strain model of workplace stress which suggests that stress and illness are caused by the workplace in two ways: High workload (high job demands) Low job control (deadlines, procedures etc) Marmot et al. said that in the civil service, low-grade employees would have low job control and high-grade employees would have high workload- both potentially suffer from workplace stress but for different reasons…read more

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7372 civil servants working in London answered a questionnaire on workload, job control and social support. The participants were also checked for cardiovascular disease. Participants were re-assessed 5 years later No link between high workload and stress-related illness was found The people who reported low job control were more likely to develop heart disease than those with high job control-other factors (e.g. Lifestyle) did not appear to have an impact Workload and amount of social support did not show a connection with the risk of developing heart disease.…read more

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Study on the effects of carrying out repetitive tasks that require continuous attention and some responsibility Sawyers in a Swedish sawmill have a stressful job- it requires them to be constantly focussed as if they are not the whole company will fall behind There were higher illness rates and higher adrenaline levels found in the high-risk workers than in the low-risk workers The high-risk group also had higher levels of stress on their working days than their rest days…read more

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Meta-analysis of 14 studies (83,000 employees from Europe/America/Japan) on the risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD) because of workplace stress The meta-analysis found that employees with high levels of stress in their jobs were 50% more likely to develop CHD…read more